Fighting Homelessness in Belgium

Homeless

Effectively fighting homelessness requires the availability of clear, reliable and comparable data.  For the second consecutive year, the King Baudouin Foundation has supported research teams (from (LUCAS KU Leuven and UCLouvain CIRTES) in organising point-in-time counts of homeless people at the end of 2021 in four cities and regions: Charleroi, Namur, the southern part of…

Holiday village is perfect prescription for pandemic blues

If you are among the many who are utterly depressed by the ongoing pandemic and its impact in Belgium, there’s a place at the gateway to the Ardennes that might prove just the tonic. Certainly, Les Lacs de l’Eau d’Heure is just the prescription for the coronavirus blues. History buffs might actually already be familiar…